Blogs on local flower shows

Chorley Flower Show.

After so many event have had to be cancelled over the past 18/19 months it was so nice to see Chorley Council being brave...

Huntingdonshire towns scoop top awards at Anglia in Bloom

Huntingdonshire towns scoop top awards at Anglia in Bloom Huntingdon is celebrating after striking gold in the region’s In...

***Well would you believe it ***what an evening!

Feeling extremely happy and very, very surprised.....we were presented with two Gold awards and a certificate of Excellence...

Flower Festival

During the last few days I have been helping at my local church to decorate for Immingham in Bloom. We are in the EAst Midlands...

A bloomin’ marvellous effort

A bloomin’ marvellous effort sees Huntingdonshire towns scoop awards success There were gold awards for Huntingdon and St...

Southport Flower Show

We were lucky enough to visit the country's largest independent flower show again this year and once again we weren't disappointed....

Gardening club exhibits ... you be the judge !

... another selection of photos ... ... onions, veg, crayon artwork ... all sorts ... If you'd like to see my first garden...

Gardening Club Summer Show

A recent town gardening show was very interesting and I took lots of photos. I was just visiting. I hadn't entered the classes. All...

The Pembrokeshire Show ...

One day last week, we went to the Pembrokeshire Show, with a friend. Here are some photos of a few entries .... but the ones...

Pembroke town show

This week we went to the local farm show in Pembroke. The long awaited weighing of the marrow was first on the agenda.. After...

Garden Up Festival - Sheffield Botanical Garden

The Garden Up festival is a new event to Sheffield. The idea is to have show gardens and trade exhibits in the famous Botanical...

SRGC Early Bulb display Dunblane 15.2.14

Snow on Friday was gone by the time we set off for the show early this am. On board I had a pot of Iris Katharine Hodgkin...

Conway Honey Market

There has been a Honey Market in Conway for over 700 years, King Edward 1st gave Beekeepers the right to sell their honey...

Village Show

It was the Village Show here yesterday and in reckless moment last week I offered to enter 2 categories in the flower arranging...

Northamptonshire at its best ...

We travelled across the wonderful scenic countryside of Northamptonshire, to enter a village fun dog show in aid of Dogs...

Village show

Very happy this evening-and somebody was kind enough to give me three beetroots and a cucumber too! And also from the bric-a-brac...

SRGC Show Perth

I'm not going in to lots of explanations because I just do not have the time but do ask questions about anything you want...

Viktoria Regia - the Flower Festival.

Each year in September there is held a flower decoration festival in Piestany. As it is always very nice, I thought, you...

Village Flower Show

Yesterday was the Shrewton Flower Show, and we had a lovely day for it. The entries were down on last year, but I am not...

Scarecrows

I visited yet another garden show this bank holiday weekend. In a small part of the show I found this competition exhibited...

SPALDING FLOWER PARADE

I would think some of you have been to the Spalding flower parade,i went on sat very lucky with the weather sunny but cold,just...

Fete de Pommes

Well, here we are in Autumn and around here in the Ariege the equivelant of Harvest Festivals abound. I thought I would take...

Local Horticultural Show...

Hi Folks, on Sunday we went to the local show we took 2 of our granddaughters Shannon & Charlotte both 10..our allotments...

Busy weekend

The weekend of the Allotment Flower and Veg show finally arrived. Of course it rained on the Friday night so my flowers...

Local flower Show..part 2..

On to the rest of it now,and some pretty Dahlia's..sorry,Aalice,I thought I had taken more,but there are only two !..never...

Local Flower show..Part 1...

We visited this a couple of weeks ago,so thought you would enjoy the displays..It was the first time we had been,but as it...

Tetbury in bloom

Every year the market town of Tetbury has a little flower show. I took a photo last week of the beautiful wild flower meadow...

Garden Competition

Yipee! Just heard we have won the Overall Best Back Garden Competition in East Staffs Brighter Borough' for the second year...

Village Flower Show.

Today was our village Flower Show. We had a wonderful day for it weatherwise, and an enormous crowd. The Shrewton Village...

Local Flower Show

Just thought I would show you what I was up to last weekend, thank goodness it wasn't this weekend it hasn't stopped raining...

Village show

Celebrations today-I entered the show for the first time (a flower arrangement under 6") and was astonished to get...

winning garden

here are a couple of pictures of my winning herne bay in bloom competition. hope you enjoy them.

Fete de Roses

Last Sunday was the Fete de Roses in the nearby village of Camon. I thought all rose lovers should share the day with these...

Flower Festival

I took a few photos yesterday when I attended the Flower Festival at our local Parish Church. They celebrate their 400th...

Warkworth Show - Part 2

More pics from the flower show...including some of the winning dahlia exhibits. This exhibit won a trophy for the best display...

Warkworth Show 2010

Our local show was held at the weekend.....it was the 139th Warworth Show and is quite a decent sized one. Plenty of entries...

Waterlooville and District Garden Club summer show

We had our summer show today. Great success. The advertising campaign paid off we had lots of new faces visiting to have...

My local Village Flower Show

This afternoon I went to our local Flower Show, and I think entries were down on last year, probably because of the weather,...

Gardener`s World LIVE photos

I had a wonderful day out at the NEC on Saturday. There was so much to see...and buy and I certainly made sure I did both...lol!...

Alnwick Spring Flower Show 2010

Yesterday we went to the flower show, held at The Alnwick Garden. It was a beautiful sunny day and we went early before...

Edinburgh Show

After being bullied by Scotgran and hauled out of the sick-bed (took THE bug but I am over it now) I had better put up a...

Rare plants and how to find some!

I was given a leaflet a while ago-and it listed Rare Plant Fairs for the year. I haven't been to one before-I have now! This...

AGS show purchases and garden photos

There was some interest shown as to what plants had come home with me from the AGS Loughborough show. Here are a few pictures...

AGS Show Loughborough 06/03/10

You have to arrive early at these things to make sure you get a good choice in the sales area. Here's a picture of the scene...

North Bucks Orchid Society Show 20/02/2010

I really know very little about orchids. I only grow a few pleiones and not very well at that. So I apologise for lack of...

"We got bloomin' gold!"

Anglia in Bloom I read in our local newspaper today that Huntingdon had won the Gold Medal in the Anglia in Bloom Competition!...

Church Flower Festival

Well I couldn't coax my old mum into getting out & about to see the lovely flowers the lady villagers had arranged so...

Lug-a-trug no more!!

I will tell you why I called this blog that rather strange name if you read on... Today I went to what used to be called...

Minsterley Show

I did intend to write just one blog about the show, but i couldn't upload any photos at the time, so i wrote the blog "Minsterley...

Clyne Valley Park Garden Show

Today we went to clyne valley park which is close to the city centre of swansea, and only across the road from the beach!!!...

Complicated names!

I must admit that i'm a bit confused by all the names listed under the plant section Begonia at growsonyou. I have looked...